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Red line on this one. if he doesn't act, israelis will. if you think the government shutdown is wreaking havoc on wall street, wait until you see the prospects of a regional war and an israeli strike on iran with plunging financial markets and rising oil prices. so the administration really does have a stake in getting this right. jenna: i'm sorry to interrupt. the scenario that you painted is a serious one and the president is meeting with prime minister netanyahu and they're discussing this in part. are we on the same page as israel? do we have the same red lines as israel? there seems to be...

Well, i think partly, although the key words there are at reasonable risk. and how do you define that? i think the president is very aware of his own word. when he said that there was a red line here, he now knows if he doesn't act, it's going to be a real problem for his credibility. but i think their hope is to go to what melissa was saying, this is the ideal scenario, which is our i want vention sends a signal not just to assad, but to russia and iran where they say, you know, the u.s. is going to be much more engaged here. maybe it's time to move to negotiation. i think their ideal outcome...

Kind of paid to be a bush bootlicker. the next stop was governor chair for chris christie. he had little political experience but his jersey tough-style personality won him a governor seat against an embattled incumbent and that was jon corzine. his lack of experience shows in his job experience. first, christie -- he doesn't act like a governor. does your governor act like this? have you seen any presidents act like this? he acts like a schoolyard bully, is what he does. and we've seen it many times. the governor seems to take joy in just belittling citizens. does this guy pay taxes? does he ...

President obama says, well, yes, bob and i are very close. as if to say, i'm a little bit closer to the new york professor than you are. he went to harvard too. but he doesn't act or talk like these guys. i'm surprised at some of the questions that were asked, it seems that they were so afraid of president's obama's notorious thin skin for bad news coverage. ine tabably, the president would say, it wasn't as bad as i said it was going to be. >> i think it's really hard for today's journalists to ask president obama questions because they want so desperately for the media to like him. >> they a...

The president. i don't know, sometimes when he talks about gitmo and things like that, i get the sense he's more of an op-ped writer than president. that he doesn't act like he has control over the united states government. does he or does he not, as chief executive of the executive branch, control the treasury department? does he or does he not control the irs which is part of the treasury department? can he go over there and clean it up himself? can he make it happen? >> well, i think he can. i understand people are protected by civil service and all of that. but the president needs to show ...